What was the final outcome for death row inmate Steven Stanley's case as decided by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 2013?
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This question requires understanding the specific legal outcome of the case example provided, which highlights the complexities of competency for execution.
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In what year did the Supreme Court case Ingraham v. Wright take place, after which corporal punishment was no longer considered an approved sanction for criminal offenses in the United States?
According to a 1748 Virginia statute, what was the prescribed punishment for a first offense of stealing a hog?
What type of non-lethal corporal punishment was extensively used in English and American common law for non-felony offenses?
In what year did the U.S. Congress prohibit federal courts from imposing whipping and standing in the pillory?
Which state retained corporal punishments until 1953 and subjected more than 1600 individuals to whippings in the twentieth century before repealing the practice in 1972?
What resource is mentioned in the text as an excellent source for learning about the death penalty by publishing studies and analyzing trends?
According to the text, which two questions regarding the death penalty do the courts primarily answer?
The Supreme Court case Coker v. Georgia (1977) prohibited capital punishment for what crime?
In Kennedy v. Louisiana (2008), the Supreme Court invalidated a state statute that allowed the death penalty for what specific offense?
Which Supreme Court case established that the Eighth Amendment forbids the execution of someone who is legally insane?
The 2007 case of Panetti v. Quarterman ruled that a prisoner is entitled to what, upon making a preliminary showing about their mental state?
What was the Supreme Court's initial holding in the 1989 case Penry v. Lynaugh regarding the execution of mentally retarded prisoners?
Which 2002 Supreme Court case reconsidered the issue of executing mentally retarded persons and prohibited the practice under the Eighth Amendment?
In the case of Madison v. Alabama (2019), what condition did the 70-year-old defendant suffer from that led to his inability to remember his crime?
What did the Supreme Court hold in Madison v. Alabama regarding an inmate's memory loss of their crime?
The 1988 Supreme Court case Thompson v. Oklahoma prohibited the execution of a juvenile who was what age or younger at the time of the capital crime?
Which 1989 Supreme Court case, in a 5-4 decision, held that a juvenile sixteen years or older at the time of the crime could be sentenced to death?
What was the key evidence cited in the Roper v. Simmons (2005) decision for an emerging national consensus against capital punishment for juveniles?
According to the text, what is the Supreme Court's stance on the constitutionality of the various manners of execution currently approved in the United States?
For which type of crime has the Supreme Court generally found capital punishment to be NOT disproportionately cruel and unusual?
What did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals rule in 1978 regarding the use of the strap as a form of punishment?
In Justice Stevens' conclusion in Atkins v. Virginia, what reason was given for why mentally retarded persons, despite being responsible for their crimes, do not have the same level of moral culpability as other adult criminals?
In the context of the Madison v. Alabama ruling, a court must look beyond a diagnosis like dementia to what 'downstream consequence'?
Since 1995, according to the data cited in Roper v. Simmons, how many states had actually executed inmates for crimes they had committed as juveniles?
Historically, punishments in the early American Republic, such as those in a 1748 Virginia statute, were often combined with what other sanction?
Which Supreme Court case from 1977 suggests that the death penalty is an inappropriate punishment for any crime that does not involve the taking of human life?
In the case of Steven Stanley, a death row inmate in Texas, what did a trial court illegally order for the purpose of rendering him competent to be executed?
Which of these is NOT listed in the text as a manner of execution currently approved in the United States that the Supreme Court has upheld?
According to the text, when did the practice of using the strap as a form of corporal punishment effectively end?
Which of the following is listed as a key question raised by the use of the death penalty in industrialized nations?
What punishment was prescribed for a third theft under the 1748 Virginia statute mentioned in the text?
In the evolution of Supreme Court jurisprudence on juvenile executions, which case represented a temporary allowance for the execution of 16 and 17-year-olds before being overturned?
The text mentions two mentally ill inmates, John Ferguson and Marshall Gore, who were executed in 2013 in which state?
What was the core reason the Supreme Court provided for its change in position between Penry v. Lynaugh (1989) and Atkins v. Virginia (2002)?
What historical punishment involved public ridicule, as exemplified by the penalty for a second offense of hog stealing in a 1748 Virginia statute?
According to Justice Kennedy's writing in Kennedy v. Louisiana, the Eighth Amendment bars the death penalty for the rape of a child under what specific condition?
Which state only repealed corporal punishment in 1972?
The Supreme Court's decision in Roper v. Simmons (2005) established what age as the minimum for an offender to be eligible for the death penalty?
The case of Ford v. Wainwright established that it is unconstitutional to execute individuals who are in what state?
According to the text, what was a common punishment for false testimony during a trial in the early American Republic?
The development of the death penalty jurisprudence shows a focus on proportionality. The Court found the death penalty disproportionate in Coker v. Georgia and Kennedy v. Louisiana because the crimes, while heinous, did not involve what?
What was the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1986 case Ford v. Wainwright?
The case Panetti v. Quarterman (2007) affirmed a prisoner's right to a hearing on their mental state if they make what kind of showing?
Which landmark case marked the Supreme Court's shift to prohibiting the execution of mentally retarded individuals?
In Madison v. Alabama, the Supreme Court clarified that for a prisoner's execution to be barred due to mental shortfalls, the disorder must have what effect?
What was the final Supreme Court case mentioned in the text that settled the issue of the death penalty for all offenders under the age of 18?
Based on the text, until what year did Maryland retain corporal punishments?
The Supreme Court case of Coker v. Georgia was decided in what year?
According to the Supreme Court's reasoning in Roper v. Simmons, what number of the 37 death penalty states allowed juveniles to be executed at the time of the decision?